Yaakov Malkin

Yaakov Malkin - An Israeli author, literary critic, and former Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. His writings concern art, cinema, and theater and he is the Lau-reate of the Life Achievement Award of Jerusalem International film Festival.

In the past twenty five years he is mostly involved with Jewish secular culture and has pub-lished extensively on the subject in Hebrew, French, Russian, and English. He is co-founder and Editor of Free Judaism (1995), an Israeli journal of Secular Judaism. Yaakov Malkin is Provost of the International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism and Tmura.